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  • Robert discusses the significance and ramifications of the bombing with Irish Times writer Connor O'Clery and Newsweek International editor Michael Elliot.
  • Geri Pizzi of member station KCUR reports on a dispute in the Kansas State house over the state chaplain's use of the word Jesus in the legislature's opening prayer.
  • FOR VALENTINE'S DAY, WE PLAY A BIT OF A MUSICAL SESSION BETWEEN JOURNALIST CHARLES KURALT AND HIS FRIEND, PIANIST LOONIS McGLOHON (mc-GLOW-en). KURALT READS THE WORDS OF LORENZ HART AND McGLOHON PLAYS THE TUNES OF RICHARD RODGERS.
  • WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS "BROKEN ARROW," DIRECTED BY HONG KONG ACTION FILM DIRECTOR JOHN WOO.
  • Robert talks with Jeremy Siegel, professor at the Wharton School of Business and author of "Stocks for the Long Run". Siegel says that even a five to ten percent increase in the market could result in a measurable crash. The market has increased five hundred points in the last two months. This week alone it broke it's high record every day.
  • Commentator Mickey Edwards looks at the negative ads that have characterized the Republican presidential campaign thus far... and says the real winner is Bill Clinton. Edwards says the Democrats will recycle the charges and counter-charges from the primary campaign and use them against the Republican nominee in the Fall.
  • police force in a now-deserted suburb of Sarajevo. Most of the Serb inhabitants had fled over the past couple of days.
  • NPR's Lynn Neary reports on the Christian mens' movement and its first conference for men of the cloth. About 40,000 ministers from all over the world filled a sports stadium in Atlanta recently to sing, pray and listen to other preachers call for a national revival for Jesus.
  • Linda talks with Jeff Edwards, fire marshall of Parker County, Texas, about the fires that have been burning out of control just west of Forth Worth. Speaking from Poolville, Texas, Edwards says firefighters have contained one blaze that has destroyed 20,000 acres but worries about two more fire that are still burning.
  • NPR's Joe Palca reports that physicists have found evidence challenging the assumption that fundamental particles called "top quarks" can't be divided into yet smaller structures. Researchers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., were surprised to find indications that quarks have internal structures. If this turns out to be true, it would contradict the Standard Model that physicists have long used to explain the basic structure of all matter. 17. MAYBE VOOM -- A reading from "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss. The cat, you'll remember, comes back to reveal another cat under his hat, who has another cat under his hat, who has another cat, and so-on. The cats get smaller until there's only VOOM left.
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